Re: [PATCH] PNP: don't check for conflicts with bridge windows

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Mon, 3 May 2010, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> 
> My *plan* was to make pci_root.c a PNP driver, so it would use the
> pre-parsed PNP resources to find the host bridge windows rather than
> re-parsing the ACPI _CRS info by hand.  Those PNP resources are not in
> the resource tree when the driver first sees them (which might be a
> deficiency of our current PNP core), so I don't think there's currently
> a way for the driver to distinguish IO from MEM unless it's in the
> resource itself.
> 
> At this stage of the release, my preference would be to use the patch
> above (with the intention of coming back later for some more work), or
> to just revert fa35b4926 (PNPACPI window support) and maybe 9d7cca04
> (generic window support).  If we revert those patches, I'll have to
> figure out another way to clean up pci_root.c.

Oh, I'm fine with your patch, I just reacted to it wondering whether maybe 
there was some cleaner way of solving the problem. I guess annotating the 
resource itself is ok.

So don't take my comment as a NAK, more of a "hmm, how about.. "

		Linus